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"How history was cooked up for Nalanda University": Story behind a Marxist historian accounts of its destruction by ‘Hindu fanatics’, and why no self-respecting Marxist could have rested this on just one miracle of acquiring 'sidhis' and 'raining fire'

“Surely, no self-respecting Marxist could have made his account rest on not just one miracle — acquiring siddhis and raining fire on to the Nalanda structures — but two, for we also have the streams of water running down from the scriptures.” – Arun Shourie

Hindu seers and sages could tap sources of universal spirituality because they did not start with an a priori assumption of an Almighty God whom man had to fear and obey in awe and objection - Defence of Hindu Society

Hindu seers and sages could tap the sources of universal spirituality because they did not start with an a priori assumption of an Almighty God whom man had to fear and obey in awe and objection. Nor did they fortify this a priori assumption with a framework of deductive inferences drawn from an observed order in the workings of the outer world. They never asserted that an Almighty God had to be accepted as a matter of faith as the creator and controller of the cosmos.

A Strange New World - Road was clear for Indira Gandhi, nothing could stop her and there seemed no opposition to her regime, 'The New York Times' marvelled at how the JP movement had just melted away

We were fast asleep when the phone rang in the early hours of 26 June 1975. Subramanian Swamy, was on the line, sounding very agitated as he informed that JP, KR Malkani, and other opposition leaders had been picked up by the police earlier in the night. He then went on to say that he had to leave his house in Greater Kailash before the police came to get him. My husband, Virendra Kapoor, a journalist working for the Financial Express, asked him to come straight away to 520 Vithalbhai Patel (VP) House.

Professor of Feminist Studies at University of California, Bettina Aptheker describes her teaching philosophy as “revolutionary praxis”: one of her course syllabi describes lesbianism as the “highest stage of feminism”

When The Professors was first published in February 2006, it was greeted by cries of outrage from the academic Left. The author was denounced as a reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy and his book as a “blacklist,” although no evidence existed to support either claim and both were the opposite of the truth.

Historian with Communist glasses: When Pandit Nehru rose to unrivalled power and position in India his book 'Glimpses of World History' was recommended as a reliable reference work for advanced students of history in Indian universities

Pandit Nehru's second book, Glimpses of World History, was first published in India in 1934 and later on in England in 1939. The second edition which was "revised and, to a considerable extent, rewritten", carried a foreword from Krishna Menon who was mainly responsible for getting it published in England. Krishna Menon says: "Glimpses of World History is no mere narrative of events, valuable as the work is in this respect, but also a reflection of the author's personality."1

Asst. Professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Gil Anidjar is an Anti-Israel activist, apologist for Islamic radicalism and identifies “good teaching” with pro-Palestinian activism: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

When The Professors was first published in February 2006, it was greeted by cries of outrage from the academic Left. The author was denounced as a reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy and his book as a “blacklist,” although no evidence existed to support either claim and both were the opposite of the truth.

Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Professor Lisa Anderson regards America’s wars of liberation in Afghanistan and Iraq as “an assault on the entire region”: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

When The Professors was first published in February 2006, it was greeted by cries of outrage from the academic Left. The author was denounced as a reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy and his book as a “blacklist,” although no evidence existed to support either claim and both were the opposite of the truth.

The Emergency: JP recited Dinkar evocative poem, ‘Singhasan khaali karo, ke Janata Aati hai’, Harvard-returned Subramanian Swamy and member of Rajya Sabha presciently speculated, ‘What if Mrs. Gandhi introduced martial law’

25th June 1975 was a sweltering day, made more uncomfortable by the frequent power breakdowns at the Indian Express office at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, Delhi’s Fleet Street. When the lights came on by 8 p.m., I left the office, oblivious to the fact that the blackout was just a dress rehearsal and that a coup was in the works a couple of kilometers away. The restoration of electricity was temporary—the newspaper would be in the dark for a long time to come.

Professor Hamid Algar, University of California, Berkeley: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

When The Professors was first published in February 2006, it was greeted by cries of outrage from the academic Left. The author was denounced as a reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy and his book as a “blacklist,” although no evidence existed to support either claim and both were the opposite of the truth.

Professor M. Shahid Alam, Northeastern University: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

When The Professors was first published in February 2006, it was greeted by cries of outrage from the academic Left. The author was denounced as a reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy and his book as a “blacklist,” although no evidence existed to support either claim and both were the opposite of the truth.

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